The headline number is 80.4 million. That’s the total for the franchise, spanning 13 titles from 1997 to May 5, 2018. Prior to this, the last figure from Polyphony was in September 2017, when sales cracked 77.02 million.

With GT Sport launching last October (read our thorough review), it’s fair to say it contributes the lion’s share of the 3.38 million new sales. How much exactly is unknown, however.

To complicate matters, Polyphony has also specified the new total is sold-through. The previous listings were understood to be shipped (to retailers); this means Sport‘s numbers could actually be higher than 3.3 million, depending on how many unsold copies of older GT games are out there in the wild.

There’s also the issue of online sales, which have become increasingly important every year.

With GT Sport available for almost seven months, it will be interesting to see where its lifetime sales end up. As is, it’s got a ways to go to overtake GT6 — the lowest-selling in the mainline franchise — but could conceivably catch the PSP entry. We know more cars and tracks are coming, after all!

The annual FIA Prize Giving happened this past weekend in St. Petersburg, Russia. There, the very first GT Sport FIA-Certified champions received their trophies alongside the rest of motorsport’s elite. Each…